Blue Box The more plastics you add to Ontario’s Blue Box, the more it costs December 23, 2015 It’s easy to describe plastics as the problem child of the Ontario Blue Box. Just look at the chart below. Its generation continues to increase; its volume fills trucks and…
Environment Toronto’s largest waste bins often filled with recyclabes, says report December 4, 2015 City staff are investigating a three per cent rate hike for 2016 waste collection rates
Industry chat VIDEO: Meet Jack the 'excited' waste claw operator December 4, 2015 Watch this driver deftly pick up a mattress without getting out of his truck
Industry chat Retailers urged to “follow the science” on sanitisation November 17, 2015 The corrugated box industry is just fear-mongering about food safety, according to the reusable crate lobby, which has obviously been stung by the release of yet another study questioning…
Industry chat Getting the facts straight on packaging diversion in Canada November 9, 2015 In the course of an otherwise interesting article on Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR), Tom Chervinsky makes a statistical boo-boo. See, I am mellowing. I didn’t call it package bashing.
Industry chat PPEC celebrates its 25th anniversary in style November 3, 2015 Apart from breaking out the bubbly and destroying a cake, PPEC members and friends celebrated the environmental council’s 25th anniversary last week with the release of three warmly…
Environment Mr. Trash Wheel cleaning up Baltimore October 21, 2015 Since May 9, 2014, it's removed 331 tons of waste, collecting as much as 38,000 lbs. in a single day
Industry chat Industry well on the way to solving the waxed box issue October 16, 2015 Although relatively few corrugated boxes have wax applied to them (about 3% of all corrugated produced), they have long been a “problem” material when it comes to recycling. Those days…
Industry chat We're back after a short break! October 13, 2015 Dear Readers, A quick, short note to let you know that we are once again in full swing over at Solid Waste & Recycling magazine. My wife and I just…
Industry chat We don’t cut down trees just because paper is in the landfill October 7, 2015 A slide shown at the Conference on Canadian Stewardship in Banff last week claimed a direct connection between paper ending up in landfill and the need to harvest fresh trees.
